john ratcliffe, thank you. former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe.l facing calls within his own party to step down following the botched handling of the border security bill. utah senator mike lee is here next. ♪ >> madam president, we cannot send billions of dollars to ukraine while america's own borders are bleeding. ♪ [farm animal sounds] ♪ meanwhile, at a vrbo... when other vacation rentals aren't what they're cracked up to be, try one where you know what you'll get. >> we'll have to deport a lot of them. it's not sustainable. i had the safest border in the history of our country. i built 56 is miles of wall, and that was good -- 561. but i also got mexico to give us 28,000 soldiers free of charge. i told them we're not going to be happy if you don't do it. we're going to put tariffs on your cars and everything else that you sell us, which is a lot, if you don't do it, and they did it. they gave us 28,000 soldiers, and we had the best border we've ever had. now we have the worst border probably in the history of the world. maria: that was more of

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maria: john ratcliff? >> he's fan fantastic. john ratcliffe has done a great job. maria: dr.one a great job. maria: so you're expecting them to be in your cabinetsome. >> some of them, yes. maria: coming up next, will it really be a trump-biden rematch, or will the next go to p candidate case off against somebody else in november? president trump reacts, next. stay with us. ♪ ♪ i wanna hold you forever ♪ hey little bear bear. ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm gonna love you forever ♪ ♪ ♪ c'mon, bear. ♪ ♪ ♪ you don't...you don't have to worry... ♪ ♪ be by your side... i'll be there... ♪ ♪ with my arms wrapped around... ♪ maria: welcome back. president trump is about to take a larger role within the republican national committee as he pursues the gop nomination for president. in this exclusive interview, i asked the 45th commander in chief about some of his former officials and whether they'll be part of the new cabinet. you've spoken about the weaponization of law enforcement agencies, two-tiered system of justice. we watch it. >> yeah. maria: who do you want to see in those roles, the a.g., the fbi?

john ratcliffe is with us now. good morning to you. would you expect the white house to block this release? and can the white house block hur from testifying? >> bill, i think at this point i do expect the white house to block the release of this. so the declassification process that they are talking about i've been through it many times. the way it works you consult the various agencies that have equities involved. in this case it could be the pentagon, cia, state department. bill, this is a process that if the white house wanted it to move quickly they could ask for it to move quickly and a decision could be made in a matter of hours, certainly in 24 to 48 hours. it has now been two weeks. this has been a terrible story for the biden administration and the biden white house. if they had the ability to counteract the damaging stories that are out there they would want to do it quickly. the fact that they haven't tells you they can't do it. so i think that they are probably struggling with the issue should we assert executive privilege

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i spoke with john ratcliffe. come within the next two weeks and he believes that the supreme court will ultimately rule in favor of trump and that name will stay on the ballot. your reaction? what are you expecting? >> yeah, well, first of all, john's a great he guy and good friend of mine. i agree with him. if you listen to the hearing it was pretty clear that all nine of the justices were skeptical that colorado had the ability to keep donald trump off the ballot for many different reasons, with whether it was due process or other arguments but it's the difference between politics and law. it's very easy to make throw-away statements in politics be but in law words matter, constitution has meaning and structure and so it was very good i think that the supreme court brought an adult voice to the room to discuss how ridiculous what colorado was trying to do. maria: look at what we're dealing with right now, ag. the fact is, is that when joe biden chose company cam to be -- chose kamala harris to be his vice presi

john ratcliffe is spot on, kayleigh. your reaction. >> he is.f course iran would want biden in the white house. not only can they rely on the fact that biden doesn't know where he is or who he is on a daily basis but they know he's not going to do anything, he can't ever show strength. it's not a ki k coincidence we e multiple foreign crisis happening at the same time under this president. we have iran seriously ramping up the nuclear production because they've made billions from the biden administration not enforcing embargoes against iran. have you a new russia national security threat which is believed to be nuclear satellites that are meant to take out other countries' satellites. have obviously the turmoil in the middle east, china ramping unthreats against taiwan. none of this happened under the trump administration. and you have to wonder, well, why is that? i think the answer is pretty obvious. maria: it is obvious. let's go back and see joe biden and you how he's treating russia and china. he did not enforce sanctions on russia. russia

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maria: this guy's not doing anything about this in the white house and john ratcliffe told me he thinkshe ccp will try to interfere in america's election in november of 2024. obviously china wants their guy in there, joe biden. the immigration and customs enforcement report for fiscal year 2023 reveals that only 288 chinese nationals were actually deported in the u.s. last year but look at the number that came in. more than 24,000 encountered at the southern border, just since october. this is just a few months. i spoke with the former secretary of state mike pompeo on sunday morning futures yesterday about the surge of chinese nationals at the border and why. watch this. has the president done anything about the thousands or tens of thousands of chinese nationals coming into america through the open border. >> he's done something. wellwehwell comed that. maria: why are they here. >> anybody who came here from china will have a hard time escaping chinese communist party. they went with chinese communist party's permission. some are doing the work of the chinese communist party. this wil

other two people strong candidateseses congressman john ratcliff.t o'brien former national security adviser. they worked side by side with donald trump for years. he trusts them, know each other and work hard. compatible and both be great vice presidents as well. >> sean: i would like your take on this, media, donald trump mixing up vice president harris. with pelosi, somebody, i don't remember. you know, i am listening, they are trying to make a comparison. joe biden, who i would argue has not had a clean event meaning issue free, mumbling, stumbling, not knowing whether to exit stage left or right or walk straight in months. donald trump has -- he is old and cognitively impaired like joe. there is no comparison. not even bay long shot! mob, media. that was their attempted narrative. i don't think it is working. >> they can't defend joe biden so they try to attack trump. did you see earlier tonight, they have biden going up baby stairs air force one there he is tripping. there is a report when he comes down the baby stairs. it is not the full stair

election we know how 51 intelligence officials signed on to paper not true in any way, shape or form john ratcliffe on this program in 2020 said that is not true this is not russian dissing notion of they ignored ratcliffe, used brennan we know what he did during the russia conclusion collusion lie. >> 80% are, there is a reason outrageous, a polling see how people are so outraged this different levels of treatment for different kind of people, people all the time of sake how is it trump had biggest preliminary would comeback of all time where he two years ago lot of people saying going to be nowhere he tapped into very thing, people think the system is unfair they know it they see it is there is evidence of it they say enough is enough they want somebody going to fight back, get rid of the corruption, that person seems donald trump in their minds. >> shouldn't surprise anyone. >> donald trump because not fried to expose people they are afraid of him, he has touched the fire of corruption. and once he touched the fire of corruption expose it they are afraid for their jobs they know what they've don

but why not send you, mike pompeo or john ratcliff to deliver that message in private?know this was the literal message she sent spray know where he's coming from i know he's trying to do and i know this frustration when he started mighbut russia's segment nato. we are committed today that we've always been committed to nato. there's never been talk about getting out of nato using article 13 to basically say have a litter of denunciation walk out the door. his point is and it is a valid point that everybody needs to do with they said they're going to do in the 2014 whales declaration 2% gdp, 20% modernization. the two thirds of the countries right now are not doing that. we need to force that i happen to agree with the president in that regard. trey: i like the point i just wish he had made it the way you just made it as opposed to doing it at a political rally but we will save that for another conversation. thank you for your service to our country and joining us on a sunday night. >> thanks trey, thanks for having me. trey: yes are coming up republican california cong

politicals, where instead the trump administration appointees will be calling out like we saw with john ratcliffe ric grenell, when there was something that was being put out by the left that was bianca solorzano, they were able to come out and say that's not true. and the democrats' left doesn't want to lose that. >> laura: no, they are panicked. i think they are in a frothy panic about what trump is going to uncover if he should win a second term. now, ned, the a.p. is reporting and this made me laugh, liberal organizations in washington are quietly trying to install road blocks just in case trump wins. a collectionist of advocates and legal experts promoting new federal rules to limit presidential power while urging president's to limit trump in a possible second term. so, again these are the people who are talking about election interference plotting to undermine a new president's authority authority before he is even elected. you can't make this up. >> no. they are going to be fighting tooth and nail all the way through november and if and win it's going to be tooth and nail fight, laura, fr

signing the letter but did not ask the sitting intelligence head to sign the letter that would be john ratcliffedirector of national intelligence at the time on this program, saying repeatedly this hunter biden laptop is not russian disinformation never said -- it was russian disinformation it is not because we never told them that they ignored him blew him off did not ask for his signature because of what he was saying telling the truth on this program to have you always incredible resource 37 we appreciate your time >>thanks so much mirror mirror the race for white house heats up michigan primaries kickoff today, 16 delegates at stake grady trimble live in michigan this morning with state of the race grady. >> good morning, maria. , two big tests in michigan today for both former president donald trump, and president joe biden. coming up digging into the issues driving the voters to the polls in michigan. that is next. . (♪) (♪) ♪(song in french)♪ (♪) book in the hotels.com app to find your perfect somewhere. when i was your age, we never had anything like this. what? wifi? wifi that works all

we're going to talk with james comer this morning and we'll ask him as well as john ratcliffe what they of these chinese nationals coming in. we're also going to talk about that botched border deal, so senator mike lee is now calling for mitch mcconnell to step down. yes, heads are beginning to roll in the republican party as trump seeks the nomination for president. and of course we also know the story of ronna mcdaniel, my sources tell me president trump asked her to step down last thursday after we left mar-a-lago and did an interview with the 45th president. we are expecting her to step down after the south carolina primary. of course, her team says nothing has changed. we will see what happens after the south carolina primary. we're talking with woody johnson, we want to get his take on the changes underway in the republican party. he's a major donor, former ambassador and owner of the new york jets on this super bowl sunday. we'll have fun with woody johnson as well. joey: it's a super bowl worthy show. we'll stay tuned in for sunday morning futures. thanks for joining us. maria:

back in 2018 and that is the russia collusion lie and at the time i had spoken with devin nunes, john ratcliffehey were set up in the years 2016 and 2017. george papadopoulos will come on and tell us more about the blockbuster details we got this week about how the cia and the fbi were running into trump officials to try to set them u we'll talk about the national security issues as a result of all of this, 30 politicking goih michael waltz and how our adversaries are on the march thanks to poor policy and politicking when it comes to america's security. rachel: you always have your finger on the pulse. that is an excellent lineup of what is going on in our country right now. i'm definitely staying tuned for sunday morning futures. thanks for joining us today. maria: rachel, i have one more thing to add. could margarita be any cuter? she is so gorgeous and she looks like your baby sister, mini me. so sweet. that made my money. rachel: thank you, maria. you're the best. she is a sweet little girl inside and out so thank you, maria. maria: see you later. guy: florida storms postponed the daytona

intelligence committee chairman congressman if devin nuÑes followed by then-judiciary committee member john ratcliffeis program in 2018 exposing the origins of the trump-russia collusion lie and how the fbi and the cia spied on and ran into trump advisers. this week more details emerge on the extent of that hoax with multiple sources confirming to reporters michael shellenberger, matt tiey by what we first reported here in 2018, that under former president obama the intelligence community, including the cia and fbi, illegally targeted trump advisers long before the summer of 2016 with the help of foreign intelligence agencies. the reporters added, quote, after public and racket had been told that president obama's cia director, john men manager had identified 26 trump associates for the five is to target, a course -- source confirmed they were identified as people to bump or make contact with or manipulate. they were targets of our own intelligence community and law enforcement targets for collection and misinformation joining me right now, one of the people that was swept up in the whole hoax, forme

here's former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe with me yesterday on sunday morning futuresrotection is telling us that the fastest growing group they're encountering the border is coming from our number one geopolitical add a veer sharely, china -- adversary, china. it's not a question of whether the people's republic of china and the ccp are sending spice over here, it's a question of how many. and what their purposes are. are they here to run chinese police stations in? are they here to conduct industrials pea nag. espionage. that's what's happening. .maria: joining me now, brandon judd. we're talking about chinese nationals coming across the bore doctor and into america for a while. when we look at the pictures it looks like it's largely military aged men. what can you tell us about this? >> that's the most scary aspect about this. if these were family units it would be one thing. if it were children it would be nor thing. because the vast majority are military aged men, you have to wonder what is their purpose, are they coming here to spy? are they coming here to set up

maria: and that was former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe with me here two weeks agot biden's lack of a response to communist china's aggression against the united states. the pentagon this weekend i calling a high altitude balloon flying over the western united states friday property of an amateur balloonist and not a product of china. the pentagon says it does not pose a national security threat. remember, it was just about a year ago hen chinese spy balloon was was deed detected traveling across america before it was shot down after six days of flight. it was at that time former dni ratcliffe said it was likely sending information back to beijing in realtime, something the pentagon has denied. 9/11 -- meanwhile, the federal election commission has sworn in a chinese immigrant despite not having citizenship. kelly wong from hong kong in the united states on a visa was unanimously appointed by san francisco's board of supervisors to the elections commission due to the measure approved by voters back in 2020 that eliminated u.s. citizenship as a requirement to be on t

think are reallyng strong candidates that aren't on anybody else's list right nog w, congressman john ratcliffe, who is his director of national intelligence, and robert o'brien, the former national security adviser. they worked side by side with donald trump for years. he trusts them . they know each other. they work hard. they're compatibler and wo, they're telegenic. and i think they would both be great vice presidents bot as well. ea >> i'd likn:e your take on thisa because the media. donald trump mixes up vice president. >> i don't know whether it was pelosi or somebody i don't rememberomebody,rememb. and, you know, i'm listening jod they're trying to make a comparison that joe biden would argue is note hadte a clean event meaning issue free either mumblingan mumblingo stumbling, you know, not knowing whether to exit stage left ot knowr right or not beine to walk straight in months. donald trump has one. see that he's old and he's cognitively impaired like joe. >> and i'm like, okay, i watched this guy tonight. >> there is no comparison, not even by a long shot. b, >> and the mob, the medi